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Families have rated Kettering General Hospital’s maternity care highly in the Care Quality Commission (CQC) Maternity Survey 2018 released on 29 Jauanry 2019. https://www.cqc.org.uk/provider/RNQ/survey/5

Kettering General Hospital has appointed to a new role designed to maximise the benefits of digital technology for patients and staff.
 
Andy Callow will become the Trust’s new Chief Digital and Information Officer from the Spring, 2019. He is currently Programme Director for the innovative NHS App at NHS Digital.

Kettering General Hospital has been awarded £820,000 to introduce a new high-tech electronic system that will improve the safe use of medicines for patients.

It made a successful bid to NHS Improvement to fund a new Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system.

A new service to improve older people’s experience of being a patient at Kettering General Hospital – especially during busy times - has just been launched.

The new High Fidelity Simulation Suite has realistic full-sized patient manikins - which are computerised and can be programmed to simulate real medical emergencies.

A new high-tech ultrasound scanner that helps in the early detection of womb cancer has been bought for Kettering General Hospital by a cancer charity.

Kettering General Hospital has introduced a new state-of-the-art way for patients to give feedback about their hospital experience. 

A charity which supports local families who have lost a baby has paid for a £17,000 refurbishment and expansion of Kettering General Hospital’s bereavement facilities.

Northamptonshire SANDS (the Stillborn and Neonatal Death Charity) has been supporting the improvement work since December last year – and it is now complete.

Kettering General Hospital’s Dermatology Department is opening for business in its new and improved off-site location from Monday, November 26.

The department has moved from its location on the main hospital site to Prospect House in Lower Street, Kettering -  where it will share premises with Eskdaill and Weavers medical centres and Rolands Pharmacy.